Remember the Saudi Arabian SUV concept called the 'Gazal 1' from this year's edition of the Geneva Motor Show in March? Well, it's officially going into production. The announcement was made by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah himself during a special ceremony earlier this week.
The original Gazal 1 concept study was created by the students of Saud University in Riyadh with some help from Magna Steyr and Studiotorino. Despite the deign similarities with Toyota's FJ Cruiser, the Gazal 1 is actually based on the underpinnings of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class and is powered by a V8 engine.
Its makers told Arab News that the Gazal 1 "is designed to match the climate of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries" and that there are plans to build up to 20,000 examples a year.
Source: Arab News , Via: Autoblog.com
16 Comments:
what an ugly color.
Right, a Saudi car. Therefore women and gays are not allowed to drive it and it stops 5 times a day to point at mecca.
Very much like a stubby American car. No wonder both Saudi and America are great friends.
It's very freak!
An extremely selfish exercise about image, while content provided by other talented sources! For an example of students with genuine innovation creation that have interests that are globally outward looking;
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2010/06/hydro-kultur-nios-fully-functional.html
anon 2......why did u have to go so far as to showing some religious hate here??...this is a car so please comment on the car alone!!.....nd btw this car looks like a toy....seriously!!
"why did u have to go so far as to showing some religious hate here??"
Because all religons are worthless and contribute nothing.
After all, religions have had centuries and centuries to show us all how hateful they are to one another AND to non-belivers; therefore, they don't deserve any respect because they haven't earned it. Of all the religious wars ever waged upon the world....and ONE comment on Carscoop sets you off? Get real.
Furthermore, I am commenting on the car; as it is a car made in a theocracy.
I swear every time i see this all i can think of is if a fj-40 had a child with a honda element !
Excellent idea - Job creation - Local industrialization and great car to be. Why not?
Man was and is sometimes an animal. Barbaric. Religion is the product after reasoning what is good and bad. We were worse before religion and are better off now after religion. Religion is a human concept so will have its imperfections and negatives, now as we evolve we need to take the good things...chuck the bad, become better and better humans. Religion is important and more important is that it should ever evolve.
^ AMEN, it's a forum about the cars!!! comment on on car here ,or go to church and pray ,or meditate there ... personally : its ugly as hell, but it's beginning...and by the way : "religion is POWER to control the masses...
...they definitely hired some designers from Volga :-)
one word ugly !!!
You are really stupid people ; because this is the first car Saudi Arabia has made .
you can see old America cars before 60 years ; How ugly is it ?!
it look great and was designed to fit the audience of their target market. it is also a functional looking vehicle with a purpose. kudos to them. enough bigotry. peace starts here.
This is a car designed with 100% foreign technical support. The Saudi's or any Arab country do not have the technical expertise to develop and run not even one of their own petrochemical institutions, after almost 50 years of being in petroleum extraction.
This is just another project with the blood and sweat of anonymous Asian workforce.
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